OneOak talk: using science and art to revive Britain’s wood culture
Sylva’s CEO Dr Gabriel Hemery is giving a talk on Monday 29th November at Oxford’s Botanic Gardens.
myForest in the news
Farmers and landowners in south Oxfordshire are being encouraged to join a project to improve the management of their woodlands. Oxford Times, November 4th 2010.
New myForest woodland owner interface
A new and upgraded myForest woodland user account home page has been launched today. Users can start using the new page as soon as they log in to their accounts. The new page has been designed to be more intuitive to use and to give a better overview of mapped woodlands by offering an interactive…
200 woodland owners using myForest
he 200th woodland owner signed up to our myForest service today and mapped their woodland.
Carbon footprint website launched
A new website has been launched for the Wood Footprinter Methodology and Toolkit Research Project. Sylva is a main partner in the project.
email newsletter launched
We are pleased to announce the launch of an email newsletter service. We have always provided subscription to our blog and publication feeds via RSS but some market research told us that very few people use it, or even know what it is (RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication). So we have now enabled anyone…
5000 hectares of woodlands mapped on myForest
Sylva’s myForest Service continues to go from strength to strength. This month the total area of woodlands mapped by woodland owners or agents exceeded 5300 hectares. It was also exciting to see woodlands in Northern Ireland appearing on the webmap for the first time, together with further interest in Scotland.
OneOak tree was 222 years old
Our original estimate that the OneOak tree was about 160 years old was very inaccurate. Dendrochronology research has revealed that it first grew from its acorn in 1788, making it 222 years old when it was felled in January 2010.
Furniture students start working with OneOak schools
Students from Rycotewood Furniture Centre, part of Oxford & Cherwell College, have started working with our five OneOak partner schools. Over the next few months they will be working closely with the same children who had watched the OneOak tree being felled last January, to design and build outdoor furniture for each school, made from…
Developing a carbon footprint calculator for the woodchain
The Sylva Foundation is working with Best Foot Forward and TRADA on a new research project for the Forestry Commission.